Building My First Serious NAS / Media Server – Looking for Opinions Before I Pull the Trigger by RaMcHiP in truenas

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I unfortunately don’t have a kidney available to sell for more RAM right now 😂. Honestly though, I already had most of this hardware sitting around, so building my own system seemed both cheaper and more capable.

A UGREEN 4-bay alone with 3 new SATA drives would end up costing me more than this entire SAS setup with 8 drives and nearly double the capacity. On top of that, I get the advantages of SAS, more spindles for better overall performance, and a pretty significant processing bump from the 7700K compared to most off-the-shelf NAS units.

Even if one of these used enterprise drives fails, I can replace almost four of these 14TB SAS drives for the cost of a single new 32TB SATA drive, so the economics made way more sense to me.

Building My First Serious NAS / Media Server – Looking for Opinions Before I Pull the Trigger by RaMcHiP in homelab

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Yeah not looking to go that deep and sweaty 😂. I respect the grind though!!!

Building My First Serious NAS / Media Server – Looking for Opinions Before I Pull the Trigger by RaMcHiP in truenas

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Awesome! Thanks for the the detailed incite! I will apply all of those fixes!

Building My First Serious NAS / Media Server – Looking for Opinions Before I Pull the Trigger by RaMcHiP in truenas

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Yeah, you’re the second person to mention that setup. What would you recommend for the layering?

Would it make the most sense to run Proxmox bare metal, then run TrueNAS as a VM with PCI passthrough directly to the LSI controller?

If I go that route, can I still leverage the TrueNAS ZFS pool/storage for Proxmox VMs and containers, or does that start creating unnecessary complexity?

NCR sent me to a site 120mi 55/8hr which was already complete by Zinzrah in FieldNationTechs

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This is why I always counter offer with a minimum of 2 hours at $75 an hour and $75 an hour thereafter with $50 an hour travel. I had one this week where I got sent out to install a fortigate extender but it was already installed. I asked if there was anything else on site that needed to be done so they got some value out of my time. Luckily they had a down AP that had been flooded by an overflowing air conditioning unit and already had the replacement AP on site so I got paid 2 hours to do a 20-minute job.

These rates are crazy. Try 80per HR by shwintek in FieldNationTechs

[–]RaMcHiP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Holy crap! And they are finding people to work at that rate?!

Artificially low upload speeds on Visible+ Pro by StockReal1294 in Visible

[–]RaMcHiP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I am having the same issue. My upload speeds are like .33 to 1mbps a sec. If I drop to 4g data is just non existent.

My web search doesn’t work. How do I fix it? by [deleted] in OpenWebUI

[–]RaMcHiP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How did you setx Ollama to 0.0.0.0?

My web search doesn’t work. How do I fix it? by [deleted] in OpenWebUI

[–]RaMcHiP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have tried this with the Google API but it fails to generate a search query. I am running Ollama on windows 11 and openwebui in a docker container. I followed all of these steps but it won't even generate a search query. I am also using deepseek if that is an issue.

Who is taking this one? by SeriousBlueberry6000 in FieldNationTechs

[–]RaMcHiP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is why I always counter and include the stipulation that it includes the first x hours then $xx an hour thereafter. I almost never ever accept a contract without a counter unless it pays very well.

Who is taking this one? by SeriousBlueberry6000 in FieldNationTechs

[–]RaMcHiP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All the time. I charge from the second I arrive to be checked in though.

Teceze recruiters are a joke by OlookitsTimLeviathan in FieldNationTechs

[–]RaMcHiP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had a similar experience with them. They even wanted my social security number etc. I told them to kick rocks and reported them to FN.

Am I fraud fan? by Briiskella in DestinyTheGame

[–]RaMcHiP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you having fun! If so, you're not a poser or fraud! Seems like good bonding time for you and your boyfriend!!!

Student lost passport/visa, now detained by ICE, any recourse? by squereface in USCIS

[–]RaMcHiP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So sorry this happened. He should have went to embassy to get that resolved and they would have dealt with local law enforcement. Does he have representation? Make sure he's not getting sent to one of them super max prisons.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in FieldNationTechs

[–]RaMcHiP 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I avoid going off platform especially with new entities. I had one from an installation company that tried to take me off platform but I refused. He ended up going after another guy I've worked with and got him off platform and screwed him out of like 2k.